Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/The Ruined Mind
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE CHAMBER OF DEATH.
Ah! sad it is to see the deck
Dismasted of some noble wreck;
And sad to see the marble stone
Defaced, and with gray moss o'ergrown;
And sad to see the broken lute
For ever to its music mute.
But what is lute, or fallen tower,
Or ship sunk in its proudest hour,
To awe and majesty combined
In their worst shape—the ruined mind?
Blanchard’s title is:
THE RUINED MIND
In The New York Mirror (10th March 1838), as The Ruined Mind